Here, with some pointers from festival organizers William Dalrymple and Namita Gokhale, is a guide of what to catch at Jaipur over the weekend and on the festival’s final day Monday. (See the guide for days one and two.)

“India: An Unbound Breakout Nation in Spite of the Gods”: The clunky title is a play on the variety of ways authors have referred toIndia’s situation and prospects in recent years. Republic Day is as good a time as any to revisit those prospects with Ruchir Sharma (“Breakout Nations”), head of emerging market equities at Morgan Stanley Investment, and Financial Times journalist Edward Luce, who used to cover India and now writes on the U.S. for the paper (“In Spite of the Gods”). (Front Lawns)

“Ghosts of Empire”:Kwasi Kwarteng, a British Tory MP of Ghanaian descent, reads from his book on the legacy of Britain’s rule in six former colonies. Mr. Dalrymple described his as a “very nuanced take on empire,” and unconventional for being “further to the right than people are used to hearing empire talked about.” (Durbar Reading Room)

12:30 p.m. “Freedom of Speech and Expression”: In 2012, this has been an increasing concern after Jaipur’s organizers were forced to cancel Salman Rushdie’s appearance last year because of the threat of violence, while later in the year Indian police detained young people for Facebook comments, and in December protests in New Delhi were severely restricted by police. With Scottish writer John Burnside, English historian of Russia Orlando Figes, Kashmiri writer Basharat Peer and Tehelka editor Shoma Chaudhury. (Char Bagh)

2:15 p.m. “Gandhi vs. Gandhi”: Could any national holiday be complete without a discussion of Gandhi? Of course not. West Virginia University law professor Charles R. DiSalvo, who’s written about Mahatma Gandhi’s career as a lawyer, historian Richard Sorabji, Oxford historian of South Asia Faisal Devji, and political historian Ananay Vajpeyi, author of “Righteous Republic,” which looks at the influences from Indian antiquity on five of India’s most famous nation-builders, discuss the Great Presence that hovers over Indian politics in many, many incarnations. (Char Bagh)

5 p.m. “What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets”: With Harvard political philosopher Michael Sandel, whose class, “Justice,” has been one of the most popular courses offered at the university. Mr. Dalrymple says his 13-year-old son put forward Mr. Sandel’s name after watching episodes of his class in school. (Char Bagh)

6 p.m. “Falling Off the Map: The Question of Failed States”: End the day on a somber rather than a triumphalist note.BBC World Service Africa editor Mary Harper, University of California religion scholar Reza Aslan, novelist Laleh Khadivi, who, like Mr. Aslan, is Iranian-American, British-Palestinian writer Selma Dabbagh and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy of Pakistan in what is likely to be a somber discussion of countries like Mali, Libya and other nations closer to home. (Mughal Tent)

10 a.m. “Natasha’s Dance: Adventures With Russian Books”: A conversation between historian Orlando Figes, who has written seven books on Russia, literary essayist Elif Batuman and John Kampfner. Mr. Figes’s most recent book, “Just Send Me Word,” published last year, draws upon correspondence and KGB archives to tell a love story and a history of life in a Stalin-era forced labor camp. (Mughal Tent)

11 a.m. “Hindi-English Bhai Bhai”: Ms. Gokhale described this as a session she was personally looking forward to for its “non-conformist” approach to the relationship between these two languages in India, usually described in “either-or” terms. “They’re both hegemonic sorts of languages in a very complicated language hierarchy,” she said. (Front Lawns)

12:30 p.m. “The Decline of America”: The subtext here is “The Rise of China.” A day after the discussion on India’s prospects, Edward Luce, whose most recent book is the lengthily titled “Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent,” along with the New Yorker’s Ian Buruma, journalist Peter Hessler, who has written frequently about China, and financial services executive Frank Savage will discuss the future of the U.S. (Baithak)

3:30 p.m. “Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi 1707-1857.” Festival co-host William Dalrymple, introduced by B.N. Goswamy, in what is likely to be a fun, intimate riff on Delhi history in the 150 years before the rebellion of 1857. (Baithak)

6 p.m. “Venetian Navigators”: Andrea di Robilant tells the story of two sailors from Venice, their attempts to discover new lands in the 14th century, and the odd role of maps in European history at that time. (Baithak)

10 a.m. “After the Revolution: New Writing from the Iranian Diaspora”: American writers, both of Iranian descent, talk it over with Reza Aslan. (Baithak)

11:15 a.m. “Stree Hokar Sawal Karti Ho?” (You ask all these questions even though you’re a woman?) Festival co-organizer Namita Gokhale recommends listening to Preeta Bhargava, the first female jail superintendent in patriarchal Rajasthan, teacher Sushila Shivran and lecturer Lata Sharma as they search for answers on questions about the status of women in India. In Hindi. (Baithak)

12:30 p.m. “Adaptations”: Four writers whose books became successful movies, such as “Notes From a Scandal” (Zoe Heller) and “Slumdog Millionaire,” (Vikas Swarup), talk about the book versus the movie. (Char Bagh)

3:30 p.m. “The File”: Timoth Garton Ash talks about the young man recorded in the file the East German secret police kept on him, and his own memories of living in Berlin in the late 1970s. (Char Bagh)

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